Claire Lawlor

Occupational Disease Team.

Claire is a partner in the Occupational Disease team and have over 25 years of personal injury litigation experience.

She specialises predominately in short-tail occupational disease namely cumulative back injuries, work-related upper limb disorders, occupational asthma, dermatitis, and stress/bullying in the workplace. She also specialises in claims concerning food poisoning, food allergies, housing disrepair, carbon monoxide poisoning and EL/PL transmission of infectious diseases.

Claire is the lead of BLM's COSHH Subject Matter Group, one of a number of SMGs which ensure the development and sharing of in-depth and market-leading subject matter expertise.She has been involved in large number of in-house and external client training sessions and contributes to BLM publications upon short-tail disease topics and tactics including QOCS and fundamental dishonesty/fraud issues.

She works directly with a number of policyholders including food manufacturers/retailers on claim prevention, improving internal procedures and floodgate management most recently in relation COVID-19 claims and the impact of this upon other short-tail disease risks/claims.

University of Wolverhampton (LLB (Hons) Law); Manchester University (Legal Practice Course).